From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 27 11: 9:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35F0737B401 for ; Fri, 27 Dec 2002 11:09:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from dhumketu.homeunix.net (dialpool-210-214-66-50.maa.sify.net [210.214.66.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4A0643ED4 for ; Fri, 27 Dec 2002 11:09:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shantanoo+fbsd@ieee.org) Received: (from shantanu@localhost) by dhumketu.homeunix.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) id gBRIrGDG000294; Sat, 28 Dec 2002 00:23:16 +0530 (IST) (envelope-from shantanoo+fbsd@ieee.org) X-Authentication-Warning: dhumketu.homeunix.net: shantanu set sender to shantanoo+fbsd@ieee.org using -f Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 00:23:16 +0530 From: Shantanu Mahajan To: Juha Erkkila Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cannot connect to an ISP with ppp Message-ID: <20021227185316.GB175@dhumketu.homeunix.net> Mail-Followup-To: Juha Erkkila , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="NDin8bjvE/0mNLFQ" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: Hmmm... I dunno X-OS: FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --NDin8bjvE/0mNLFQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable +++ Juha Erkkila [freebsd] [27-12-02 11:03 +0200]: | On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 09:56:40AM -0600, Shane Kinney wrote: | > I'm certainly no expert on ppp, however, it seems that your going to | > want to add a dns entry to the /etc/resolv.conf file. Talk to your ISP | > and find out what you need to use for a dns server, then add the | > information like this: | >=20 | > nameserver 201.101.101.101 | >=20 | > Or whatever they give you for an IP address. Don't know if that will | > solve all of your problems but it will help eventually :) |=20 | well, my ISP does support giving out DNS server addresses if it is | asked to, and i did `enable dns' in /etc/ppp/ppp.conf, so i think | i shouldn't need to put anything to /etc/resolv.conf. i tried out | putting some nameserver addresses there (asking my ISP), but no, it | didn't work out :-( i think i should talk to some guys there and | see if they can help me out. thanks for your help anyway |=20 why not run named, as a caching local server? Only few steps to turn it on. Regards, Shantanu --=20 Everyone is a genius. It's just that some people are too stupid to realize it.=20 --NDin8bjvE/0mNLFQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+DKGb8NTC7RN6/Z4RApOWAKDrfV6NtYnAWBzxfbNZVG+z8cuUKwCeKows nWzk/42wMLb1JxIxodhvREQ= =xzp7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --NDin8bjvE/0mNLFQ-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message